Michael Moore Quotes

All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

it is the personal and individual thing which is done by one human being for another that is the most valuable assistance which can be rendered in time of trouble. Better not only for the one who receives, but a thousand times happier for the one who gives.

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

Jesus tells us what the 'protocol' is, on which we will be judged. It is the one we read in chapter 25 of Matthew's Gospel: I was hungry, I was thirsty, I was in prison, I was sick, I was naked and you helped me, clothed me, visited me, took care of me. Whenever we do this to one of our brothers, we do this to Jesus. Caring for our neighbor; for those who are poor, who suffer in body and in soul, for those who are in need. This is the touchstone.

What would Jesus, or any human being who isn't an asshole, do?

And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront.

We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.

Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

I hope that's what I've taught my girls - to be fair, to recognize their own position and their own good fortune, to use their voices to make things better. Beyond that, I'd tell them just to be kind.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

He who hates vice hates men.

Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.

Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?